Today is the one-year anniversary of our family moving into the farm house! Yay! In honor of this momentous occasion, I've decided to post the "moving blog" that y'all heard about so much early last year but, surprise surprise, I never actually got posted. So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the long-awaited post about our moving day!
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Saturday, January 19th 2008, we were up early and ready by the time the moving crew came. Three families were at our house in town at nine o’clock. I’d thought we’d gotten a lot packed already, but the moms tore into the packing with a fury while us kids and the dads hauled boxes. Lots and lots of boxes. We ran out of boxes about halfway through the day and I went dumpster-diving with some others behind a Dollar General for good boxes. Liz was actually the only one who got in the dumpster.Unfortunately we have no photos from that adventure. Enjoy the rest of these pictures, though.
Mrs S and Josh the "pack rat"
Mom & Dad's room minus bed and nightstands
OK, so now where do we fit this stuff? (from left Wyatt, Lisa, Uriah, and Alex M)
Loading the S's GMC. We made two trips from the house in town to the farmhouse. The first time, we used a big truck, two trailers, two GMCs, our car, and two minivans. One the second time we used Owen C’s car plus all of the above. It was amazing how much we got done. We basically stripped the upstairs of everything but the kids’ bedframes and the bookshelves in Mom & Dad’s room and afew things in the kitchen.
Who else but Hannah?
Bunch of kids loading stuff
Guys loading the entertainment center. Wow, I don't envy them that job!
Movin' out with the truck and trailer!
OK, now I know there's room for just one more tiny thing. (Kristin S)
Taking a break for a minute. At this time, we’d just finished moving the last load of the night in. We did it in the dark, tripping over rocks, on the coldest night in the year (I kid you not!) Everyone was frozen, adding in the fact that our house didn’t yet have the geothermal hooked up (we were running on our “back-up emergency” system that we ended up running on for five weeks).
Colin and Rachel C dropped by to see how it was going. (from left, Chip S and Colin C)
What Dad and Chip got done while we moved stuff
Mom and Mrs S: The first bed to be made in the new house!!
Joe M and me chatting, standing around, and generally mking ourselves useless
Dad and Chip working on the flooring
The next day, the 20th, the Ss brought Colin's younger brothers Arlen and Kellan over to help us finish moving out. This is packing the kitchen.
Our wonderful crew-of-the-day. Hey, lazybones, WAKE UP!!!!!
Home Sweet Home!
Our first meal in the new house.
Thank you, everyone who helped us! It was so muc fun!
